They oppose the tendencies of Feebleness, Relaxation, and Derangement, and modify their proclivitiesto Disease.
The mental proclivities should be checked and the physical organization cultivated, to insure to such a child good health.
But he also says that 'the proclivities of the molecules determine the typical structure assumed'.
He had been a clown at a theatre, and still retained some of the proclivities of the boards.
It is much to be hoped that these poetical and æsthetical proclivities will not deaden his practical energies.
It is not known that his proclivitiesin the line of statesmanship impaired in any wise his talent for tavern keeping.
Gordon repulsed and routed them completely and decisively, and they never thereafter coveted a rencounter with Gordon, and the example of their fate rendered others with pugilistic proclivities a little shy about encountering him.
If proclivities and predilections in favor of affording decent protection to the lives and property of defenceless people by properly garrisoning their towns constitutes lack of kindness, then the Ide rebuke was well taken.
Communist might allow the American people--or those among them who so chose--to develop proclivities for adventure and trouble-making against the Communists.
These proclivities are now sternly repressed by Federal statute.
Richard Wagner was seen to be a man of artistic taste, with proclivities which were exhibited in his domestic surroundings, novel, perhaps, to the somewhat heavy Dresdenites.
And again, their proclivities were in favour of realism, whereas his own sentiments were entwined round a poetic ideal.
The Crown Prince of Prussia, whose peaceful proclivities became subsequently known to the world, happened to be in England at this time, and Lord Clarendon took the opportunity of discussing the Franco-Prussian situation with him.
If there had been any strong French proclivities on their part--as had been so warmly asserted--they were likely to disappear.
Sir John Conway, who accompanied the Earl through the whole of his "progress journey," was quite as much struck as he by the flourishing aspect and English proclivities of the Provinces.
A man of birth and education, a member of the bar, and of acknowledged legal attainments, his proclivities were all downward.
The abdicating proclivities of the nation in pre-Meiji times are well shown by the official list of daimyos published by the Shogunate in 1862.
Some few late successes this side of the water have set all the ambitious young men of play-writing proclivities to work.
Through the influence of that law of heredity by means of which there may occur an elimination of weaknesses and proclivities toward disease.
He is wealthy; and depend on it, they were informed of the proclivities of Lady Bygrave.
Painters were as yet in too close bondage to their classical proclivities to receive inspiration from Napoleon's expedition into Egypt.
When he migrated to England in 1871 he gave up the romantic proclivities of his youth, and devoted himself to the representation of fashionable society.
When she had gone Lady Ver said old people without dyed hair or bridge proclivities were tiresome, and she smoked three cigarettes, one after the other as fast as she could.
I exclaimed, remembering hisproclivities about the servants and that Véronique knows.
Among the Greeks and the Romans the ugliest sex habits and proclivities found a place--among peoples who devoted themselves to the cleanliness of the body.
The mixtures of constitutional proclivities made more or less unlike by unlikenesses of physical conditions, inevitably led to occasional concurrences of forces producing deviations of structure.
At first, protoplasm could have had no proclivities to one or other arrangement of parts; unless, indeed, a purely mechanical proclivity towards a spherical form when suspended in a liquid.
But not pressing these questions, it suffices to point out the necessary implication that changed functions of organs do, in some way or other, register themselves in changed proclivities of the reproductive elements.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "proclivities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
